Brigham Young Quotes

The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years.

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. It is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.

People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For two years he had wanted to go west and take a homestead, but Ma did not want to leave the settled country.

The farmer had the right to migrate to where the rain fell.

Resettlement in new homes was the only possible and practicable solution

Your people do not seem to like the place where they live and always want to be on the move going someplace else.

Tell my people to go West—there is no justice for them here.

The red man must leave the land of his youth and find a new home in the west. The armies of the white are without number, like the sand of the sea, and ruin will follow all tribes that go to war with them.

We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them.

Everywhere that Americans spread off the Eastern seaboard, heading west across this country, they put up the schoolhouse first, hired a schoolteacher, and put all the kids in school.

Many people should leave struggling places in search of economic opportunity, and many of them won't be able to return. Some people will move back to their hometowns; others, like me, will move back to their home state.

On one hand, I can say, you know, I had many family members - I had many people in my extended family who left right after Katrina, who relocated to different cities, right? Houston, Atlanta. Right? Most of them have come back.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

I was from somewhere else. Then all of a sudden I was here, in New York. With one suitcase.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Does anyone who leaves a Baltic country ever want to return to it? Someone must, I suppose.

I left Cameroon when I was 13 years old, and I've lived more in Europe than Africa.

When my family migrated from Punjab during the Partition, we came to Delhi and I was enrolled in United Mission School.

I was born in Cyprus, but my family moved to England when I was about six.

I kinda grew up in different places. I was just from everywhere.

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment.